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...through the woods with the Timberland Trail Lizards ($110; timber land.com) A thick rubber cap near the toe and saddle near the mid-foot help clear brush on the trail, while lightweight Gore-Tex stitching keeps water off your socks...
...detainees' allegations of beatings, sexual taunts and other mistreatment, the U.S. is nonetheless investigating them. One of those inquiries, the findings of which are expected to be issued soon by Air Force Lieut. General Randall Schmidt, was spurred by eyewitness accounts from FBI agents at Gitmo from mid-2002 to mid-2004. According to just-released memos, agents reported seeing captives shackled in a fetal position for 24 hours without food or water and left in their own excrement, another gagged with duct tape that covered much of his head and another who had torn out his hair after being...
...phone with battery life as long as 500 hours (for villagers without regular electricity) and an extra-loud volume for use in noisy markets. The poor need innovative models of financing too. When cement supplier Cemex, based in Monterrey, Mexico, was looking to kick-start sales after Mexico's mid-1990s financial crisis, it founded Patrimonio Hoy, a combination builder's "club" and financing plan that targets homeowners who make less than $5 a day. It recruited 510 promoters to persuade new customers to commit to building additions to their homes. The customers paid Cemex $11.50 a week and received...
...government of Uzbekistan violently quelled an uprising in Andijan in mid-May; now it's harrying those who contradict the official version of events. Late last month, Uzbek President Islam Karimov's security police arrested human-rights campaigners across the country, including lawyer Saidjahon Zainabitdinov. It was Zainabitdinov who alerted international human-rights monitors that the government might not be telling the whole story about what happened in Andijan. Uzbek authorities claimed that 173 people died, mostly militants. But based on first-hand experience and other eyewitness accounts, Zainabitdinov said the death toll could be as high...
...Americans stack up on those measures? No one knows. Assessing them requires treadmills, calipers, piles of gym equipment--and lots of money. The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports used to conduct a national fitness survey of American schoolkids, but that hasn't happened since the mid-'80s. "No federal agency is interested in picking up the tab," says Russell Pate, a professor of exercise science at the University of South Carolina...